Every social group forms its own specialized intellectual categories.

Evidence

Thus there are historically formed specialised categories for the exercise of the intellectual function. They are formed in connection with all social groups, but especially in connection with the more important, and they undergo more extensive and complex elaboration in connection with the dominant social group. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 271

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that intellectuals are not a standalone class but are always attached to a social group — ‘every social group creates its own intellectuals’ is the fuller claim running through these passages.
• XREF: connects to: The social linguistic notion of distinction generalizes Bourdieu’s class-based concept to all differentiation. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 125; Every rising social group organically produces its own intellectuals to articulate its function — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 1176